As the aircraft began its descent into Heathrow, the shockingly dull brown and green patchwork of Middlesex framed itself in the plane window.

At the bottom was flat green patchwork centered by a diamond-bright aquamarine lake.

Most were tall enough to have ice-white peaks, but below the ice they were all green patchwork.

The valley beneath me is a deep green patchwork of old vineyards, and the next instruction says: "Turn right toward Monticiano: Use caution, Downhill begins."

It was a small green patchwork of pines, oaks, and aspens, set back some distance from the road.

The small craft flew over agricultural fields, a green and yellow patchwork on the plain along the winding banks of the river.

The town itself is a green patchwork of dramatic contrast - space for the solitary and activity for the energetic.

Every October, as the crisp autumn air turns maples, Japanese oaks and Sakhalin spruce into patchworks of orange, yellow and green, thousands of tourists flock here on direct fall-foliage flights from Tokyo.

The costume itself, however, mainly features the red frock coat, with green patchwork, and yellow and pink lapels.

A green patchwork of fields comes right to the edge of huge limestone arches and blow-holes.